When he saw the wizard who had come in first and the men following behind him, Nott's face turned ashen. Bobbin let out a scream, then curled up on the sofa and began trembling.
Hector Fawley only felt his legs go weak and his face drain of color. It was not just because Harris had caught him in talks with the Pureblood Society, who opposed them, but because he realized Harris had found his way here thanks to information provided by the two Hag Half-bloods he had just met. They were standing outside the door now, holding a small, jingling pouch of money as they forced ugly, ingratiating smiles at the people from the Ministry of Magic.
The Chief of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Lenn Harris, strode toward this corner. Close behind him, the Hit Wizards in Ministry of Magic uniforms each held a Firebolt. They aggressively shoved aside the Harpy waitress who tried to come forward and ask questions, sealed off the bar, and fanned out to block in everyone inside.
These highly trained elite Hit Wizards were different from the Aurors, who also belonged to the Ministry of Magic's Department of Magical Law Enforcement but were relatively independent. They were an armed force that answered directly to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
Compared with the Aurors, who were more like secret agents, the original function of these Hit Wizards was closer to that of police officers or soldiers in the Magical World, or what were now called Patrol Aurors. They had originally been trained to investigate crimes involving Dark Magic and arrest or detain Dark Wizards and Witches, and were often assigned to the front lines of fighting crime.
Before the Auror reforms were developed, this profession had still been fairly popular among wizards. Although